Dynasty Warriors 9 Review – Unfinished Pages (PS4)

Dynasty Warriors 9 Review – Unfinished Pages (PS4)

The Dynasty Warriors series has always held a special, if not small, place in my heart. There’s something alluring about the minute attention to accuracy paid to its source material mixed with the one versus all mentality that keeps drawing me back game after game. When Dynasty Warriors is at its best, it’s the embodiment of courage against staggering odds and the sense of empowerment that comes after surmounting them. If I could best describe the feeling of sending fifty nameless, faceless enemy soldiers flying with one swipe of a lance, it would be “exhilarating.”
Dynasty Warriors 9 looks to up the ante for developer Omega Force and publisher KOEI, transitioning from the series’ traditional battle-to-battle layout into a bold new open world environment. Those unfamiliar with the series can still tell by the 9 attached to the end of the newest game’s title that Dynasty Warriors has had many iterations, and making a change like this is a huge step into the possible future of a much-beloved franchise. Is something as epic as The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the story from which the game draws most of its narrative, really improved by a larger-scale world"
The answer, unfortunately, is a complicated one, and Dynasty Warriors 9 serves as an indication of what could be coming later in the series rather than the arrival of something innovative and special now.
Bloodline of Kings

A lot of what Dynasty Warriors 9 has to say about the end of the Han Dynasty in China remains unchanged from previous entries. That’s a good thing, as the game seems to flourish the most when sticking to its roots. As always, players are able to select a specific officer in different armies and relive epic battles from the novel that serves as the franchise’s inspiration. These officers are about as powerful as they come, and much of the game’s difficulty amounts to managing resources, like stamina, wisely.
Playing as a given officer grants players access to a wide array of skills, weapon preferences, and more. That means Dynasty Warriors 9 is a game with a lot of replayability, although the shifting perspectives in the story aren’t always that dramatic. Playing as Liu Bei, my personal favorite character in the franchise, isn’t that much different from playing Guan Yu or Zhang Fei, for instance. They’re the famous trio known as the Peach Garden Oath, and their stories are largely similar with a few exceptions. This isn’t a complain so much as it is a caution. While the game certainly promises a lot of variety, there is some definite overlap. Seeing events through the eyes of one person and then through the person immediately on their left doesn’t change much.
The Empty Throne
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